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He reminds us that photography provides family with ‘son unité rêvée’ and ‘sa raison d’être’: ‘Elle confirme le lien du groupe. ’ 16 Like the family portrait these texts are mourning the family even as they attempt to record it. Thematically and structurally they attempt repeatedly to resort to the mechanisms of cohesion through which family is routinely performed. In each case the effective operation of these mechanisms is thwarted. The texts thus give diverse expression 13 ‘Une photographie de famille est comme le portrait d’une très vieille idée.

All share Bref séjour’s attention to the minutiae of family maintenance work; all 30 31 See La Conversation (Paris: Grasset, 1998), p. 144. See especially La Démangeaison (Paris: Sortilèges, 1994). 52 Shirley-Ann Jordan repeatedly underscore the seductiveness of family as a concept, but contrast this with the lived reality of family as corrosive and dangerous to the individual. Their diegetic impetus is therefore achieved through reduplicated patterns of thwarted aspiration, evoking then eroding the familial dream at all levels in the narrative, from its overall thrust to its smallest detail.

4 The scapegoat, who is the inevitable product of the workings of human desire in its social context, is excluded so that the solidarity of the ‘pack’ can be established and consolidated. A bond based on mimetic desire, 4 See in particular René Girard, La Violence et le sacré (Paris: Grasset, 1972) and Le Bouc émissaire (Paris: Grasset, 1982). Race and the Family in Marie Ndiaye 37 wanting the same as the other wants, deriving one’s identity via pathways of mediated desire, determines the creation of a boundary beyond which lies that which is seen as other.